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November 4, 2015
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Audio, but no video for StageWebView html5 video on Kindle [AIR]

  • November 4, 2015
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I've been running into an odd issue with the StageWebView not rendering the html5 video on the Kindle. This is an issue I'm only seeing on the Kindle. Other android devices are rendering the the video exactly as expected, so I assumed it was an issue with the Kindle's native Silk browser. I tested the page and video in browser off of a local web server and it rendered as expected. So, as I said, the issue only appears when trying to render an html5 video from within the StageWebView on the Kindle.

I have seen similar topics (AIR for Android - StageWebView and Video (YouTube iFrame)Android 3.x App HTML5 video plays just sound and no video using StageWebViewAIR for Android - StageWebView and Video (YouTube iFrame)) brought up that suggest turning on hardware acceleration, that didn't do the trick for me. I've also fiddled with the render modes and even made sure that the color depth was 32 bit. None of these changed the behavior that I am seeing.

It does seem to be related to hardware limitations. If I fullscreen the video, it does render (albeit, the side Kindle menu and controls constanly appear and disappear). This doesn't really help me in my situation though.

I've exhausted my Google-fu skills.

Does anyone out there have any thoughts, or suggestions of things I have overlooked?

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sg_mattkAuthor
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November 12, 2015

After more time looking into this I'm almost certain it has to do with the way that the Silk browser renders its video. I'm guessing something about the StageWebView implementation does not mesh with the Silk browser video rendering. As this works in every other Android environment I've tried, I'm going to chalk it up to an StageWebView on Silk issue.

I have entered am initial bug into the bugbase: Bug#4086921 - StageWebView on Kindle App not rendering html video

Info on Silk's video rendering: Amazon Silk | Silk Media Handling